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ι568ἹπποκράταιHippocrateses, Hippokrateses… sequence beginning, here, with iota 565. [2] Even if *the* Hippocrates (iota 564) was very famous, it sounds bizarre for someone to give his two sons the same name! A "case of Hippocratomania". (Jouanna, …Matched in noteshighshort
ι564ἹπποκράτηςHippocrates, HippokratesSee generally OCD(4) s.v. Hippocrates(2). The author of the present Suda entry probablt took his information from an epitome of the Onomologos of Hesychius of Meletus (C6 CE). See J. Rubin Pinault (below) 18-21 …Matched in noteshighlong
η23Ἡβόςhumpbacked… fact an error for u(bo/s: see upsilon 10. In the Hippocratic corpus -- see under next note -- this word occurs at Aphorisms 6.46. See also Theocritus, Idylls 5.43, and LSJ s.v. on both …

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Ἱπποκράται

Hippocrateses, Hippokrateses

Two [Hippocrateses], 5 and 6, physicians, sons of Thymbraeus, also from Cos, and of the same family. Both wrote [contributions] to the same science.

Ἱπποκράται δύο, εʹ καὶ ʹ2ʹ, ἰατροί, Θυμβραίου παῖδες, Κῷοι καὶ αὐτοί, τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ. ἔγραψαν ἀμφότεροι εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν ἐπιστήμην.

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δ448ΔημόκριτοςDemocritus, Demokritos… Democritus could know unless he had been actively involved. On Hippocrates, see iota 564. [3] Demeter. For the Thesmophoria see generally theta 270. [4] From Diogenes Laertius 9.42-43 (closely followed).Matched in noteshighmedium

δ447ΔημόκριτοςDemocritus, Demokritos… it. [4] See OCD(4) 950 'Metrodorus(2)'. [5] The inclusion of Hippocrates is the result of a mistake by the author or his compilator who took an incorrectly-understood scholion to the article "Hippocrates" (see iota …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1026ἌκρωνAkron, Acron… purify the air. The same accomplishment is elsewhere attributed to Hippocrates. Pinault (below) shows that the story is probably fictional. Nevertheless, the idea that epidemics had been or could be stopped by fires entered …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1759Ἀμφιρύτηsea-girt… Smith s.v. (935). On the great physician and medical writer Hippocrates of Cos, see iota 564.Matched in noteshighshort

α4705Ἄχναιfoam, down… There seems to be a double dose of confusion here. Hippocrates uses the word a)/xnh only in the sense of fine threads of lint; and indeed in the second of the Suda's two purported …Matched in noteshighshort

α464Ἀδηνέωςunpremeditatedly, without malice… attestations outside lexicography include one in Galen, apparently deriving from Hippocrates, and one (cited in LSJ s.v.) in an inscription from Chios. For the epic/poetic neuter plural dh/nea see LSJ s.v. (The Suda has …Matched in noteshighshort

α851Ἀκέσταςhealers… and 'healing': Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.512 (and scholia thereto), Corpus Hippocraticum, De flatibus 1.8, Lycophron Alexandra 1050, some ecclesiastical writers, incl. St. Basil, and the poems of the Greek Anthology. Akestor is once used …Matched in noteshighshort

α978Ἀκρησίαbad-mixture, ill-temperature; debility… the Ionic dialect variant ought to be a)krhsi/h (as in Hippocrates, for LSJ's A); this a)krhsi/a is confined to lexicography.Matched in noteshighshort

α4170Ἄσκησινpractice, training… the comic poet: see fr. 297 Kassel-Austin. [3] cf. Erotian, Hippocratic Vocabulary 152.7, and already alpha 740.Matched in noteshighshort

αι246Αἰόλλειturns, variegates… belongs to the medical verb ai)ola/omai, used only in the Hippocratic Corpus at De mulierum affectibus (On women’s disorders) 2.174b. The best-known use of the headword is the one cited above: Homer, Odyssey 20.27, …Matched in noteshighshort

αι255Αἰώνaion, eon, age, marrow… the Creation to the general Resurrection. (v) spinal marrow (citing Hippocrates). [3] Psalm 89.8 LXX.Matched in noteshighshort

β397Βορόνgluttonous; appetite-inducing… has become dative, ruining the sense. The quotation is from Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus 6.4.18.Matched in noteshighshort

δ515Διαγεγονότοςelapsed, gone through, surviving… but is particularly important in medical literature -- starting from Hippocrates, and specially in Galen -- to indicate the different kinds of investigation necessary for a diagnosis. Nonetheless, in proffering a generic definition (which …Matched in noteshighshort

δ843Διὰ χρόνουafter a time… in the medical field for its many useful qualities. In Hippocrates, first it is considered useful in gynaecologic aspects, but in De diaeta 54.36 he adds: *glh/xwn qermai/nei kai\ diaxwre/ei, “pennyroyal warms and is …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ957Διεσκεδασμένονdispersed, disseminated, scattered (?)… In Platonis Parmenidem 71.15; Gregory of Nyssa, De virginitate 6.2; Hippocrates, De aeris aquis locis 8 and Epidemiae 4.1.14; Libanius, Epistles 1426.2. In none of these passages, is the gloss offered here appropriate. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… 200 PCG vol. 7, quoted with diagnosis by Galen, on Hippocrates, Aphorisms 7.322), with a pig's snout for a face (Anaxilas, fr. 13 PCG vol. 2), and for his case of diarrhoea. Lysias also …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1392Δόρπιστοςsupper-time… in Aristophanes. The -ist- form is extant once in the Hippocratic corpus; otherwise it is confined to lexicography. cf. generally delta 1390, delta 1393.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1580Δυοκαιδεκάτηtwelfth… which illustrate variant spellings: in this instance the rare (mostly Hippocratic) duokai-, here in the feminine nominative singular and the masculine nominative singular, and the commonplace duw- (for which see also delta 1582).Matched in noteshighshort

δ1614Δυσέμβολοςhard to enter… Diodorus Siculus. (Nonetheless its earliest attestation is in medical language: Hippocrates, Fractures 38, writing about dislocations 'hard to reduce'.). In the nominative singular (as here) it is only attested prior to the Suda at …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1631Δυσηνίουςhard to bridle, hard to rein, refractory… is normally used, as indicated, of unbroken horses, although in Hippocrates and Galen it can mean a state of affliction in human beings. Also, it is used in many authors in figurative senses (intractable, …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1637Δυσίτητοςhard to heal… Ionic form of dusi/atos (delta 1635) which occurs once in Hippocrates' treatise on bones (De ossium natura 12).Matched in noteshighshort

ε428Ἐκεῖνοςthat… use of the two can be observed in the Corpus Hippocraticum and in Herodotus, although the manuscript tradition shows much oscillation between the two forms. As for Aristophanes, sometimes the shorter one appears to …Matched in noteshighshort

ε513Ἐκνεφίαςcloud-produced… medical texts, is illustrated by Galen, Linguarum seu dictionum exoletarum Hippocratis explicatio, vol 19.96.5 Kuehn, where e)knefi/as o)/mbros is "the rain coming with sun" (evidently mentioned for its influence on human health: cf. Oribasius …Matched in noteshighshort

ε771Ἑλλέβορονhellebore… and Roman doctors: see e.g. Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 9.10.1; Hippocrates, Diseases of Women 2.126; Dioscorides 4.148 and 4. 162; see also Riddle 1992, p. 34. The plant has a complicated chemical composition of …Matched in noteshighshort

ε860Ἐλινύεινto rest… to a 'Tarantinos' (perhaps Heraclides of Taras/Tarentum, a commentator on Hippocrates). The word is frequently used in medical writers, including Galen, in the sense of therapeutic "rest". See also Hesychius epsilon2095, Etymologicum Gudianum epsilon457. …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1232Ἐνελίξαςhaving rolled (someone/something) up in… the other instances of the participle itself are in the Hippocratic corpus).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2718Ἐπιτωθάζωνmocking, teasing… is evidently quoted. Otherwise, except in a letter attributed to Hippocrates (Epistles 17 line 91), it is attested only from the second century CE onwards -- with a particular concentration in Appian -- and …Matched in noteshighshort

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